Poetry. Real poetry. In our modern age. Can you believe it? No quaint devices. No forced conventions. And conversely: No contemporary triviality. No supermarket spirituality. No greeting card epiphany. For poetry speaks. And she has something to say. And will you listen?

A thin volume of blunt, experimental, one-page poems, Probably About Women is in the process of being edited and added to a larger work of collected lyrics, or to be more accurate, other unreleased material is being added to it, and thus, as the book was never much of a seller, being largely unadvertised, this work is, for the time being:

Out of Print

Second Edition

publishing T.B.D.

Previously on this site... I published a series of three essays concerning narrative art criticism. These essays will be collected in the next edition of my collected poetry. They pretty much are poetry.

The finalized book will include the original volume of Probably About Women, with a series of new poems, the essays, plus the entire collection will be fronted by a short epic poem.

To put the past in order, this website was once a blog, originally concerning video games, though no one read me in that day, for like many first attempts, it lacked a defining vision... not to mention the "me" was supposed to be a "we".

Thereafter, this site became an anime blog, one that quite a few did read, thanks in no small part to a small community that formed a 'sphere and passed the word around, and no thanks in no small part to frequent design changes (so frequent, that one visitor came and commented, then came back again and, coming upon his first comment, expressed his confusion over having ever commented here in the first place).

What little I once wrote, with the word count and the post amount nearly as lacking as what was said, has long since vanished into the tangled archive of the web, and this is fine, as the mind that I once had has too been written over, by new ideas and new ideals that are better expressed in an older medium, that of the printed word.

Nevertheless, I've chosen to screen capture, not the words, but the looks most indicative of the wavering direction this site had seen over its short lifespan, and so here they follow, along with a short word on each, to express what once was:

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17 designs

01

Launched a game blog, but never advertised. Taken offline quickly.

02

Anime draws my attention away from games. Never live.

03

"Stop! You're at the back of the blog." Clever, but never live.

04

1st live page w/ visitors, an anime schedule & blogosphere search.

05

2nd live edition, removing the schedule I was too lazy to update.

06

3rd live edition. Dropped the search. Losing design elements.

07

No images, only text. An attempt at clean minimalism. Never live.

08

A look I could never pull, lacking the content to fill it. Never live.

09a

4th live, to reverse minimalism by fronting the entire archive.

09b

The individual post layout from the same edition.

10

Designed to counter free flowing white pages of the past. Never live.

11

Simplicity strikes back. No actual blogging is occurring. Never live.

12

To get me back in the game, I harken an older look. Never live.

13

For sexy large pictures that don't need to be top aligned. Never live.

14

Appears on the iPad screen just as this image is cropped. Never live.

15

2-column magazine for text & text. Built for an essay. Never live.

16

5th live edition: unpictured. Just text on the white void. No style; a temporary style, for writing to exist free from style. The goal at the time was to write and be concerned w/ nothing else.